Warrantee Inc. Announces Receipt of Nasdaq Delisting Determination and Plan to Appeal
April 19 2024 - 4:05PM
Warrantee Inc. (Nasdaq: WRNT) (the “Company” or “Warrantee”), a
Japanese marketing and market research technology company, today
announced that the Company received a staff determination letter
(the “Letter”), on April 15, 2024, from the Listing Qualifications
Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) notifying the
Company that, due to the Company's failure to regain compliance
with a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share requirement for
continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market, as set forth in
Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (the "Minimum Bid Requirement"), the
Staff has determined (the “Determination”) that Company's
securities will be scheduled for delisting from Nasdaq unless the
Company requests an appeal of this determination to a Hearings
Panel (the "Panel").
On October 13, 2023, the Company received a
letter from Nasdaq (the "Notice"), notifying the Company that based
upon the closing bid price of its securities for the last 30
consecutive business days preceding the Notice, the Company was not
in compliance with the Minimum Bid Requirement. In accordance with
Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Notice provided the Company a
period of 180 calendar days from the date of the Notice, or until
April 10, 2024, to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid
Requirement.
According to the Letter, the Company had not
regained compliance with the Minimum Bid Requirement as of April
10, 2024 and is not eligible for a second 180-day period.
Specifically, the Company does not comply with the initial listing
requirement of $5,000,000 minimum stockholders’ equity for The
Nasdaq Capital Market, as contemplated for a second 180-day period.
Further, on April 4, 2024, Nasdaq notified the Company that since
the Company failed to file its Form 6-K containing an interim
balance sheet and income statement for the six-month period ended
September 30, 2023, it no longer complies with our Listing Rule
5250(c)(2). This matter serves as an additional and separate basis
for delisting. Unless the Company requests an appeal of the
Determination by April 22, 2024, the Company’s securities will be
suspended at the opening of business on April 24, 2024, and a Form
25-NSE will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
which will remove the Company’s securities from listing and
registration on Nasdaq.
The Company plans to appeal the Determination to
the Panel in due course. A hearing request will stay the suspension
of the Company’s securities and the filing of Form 25-NSE pending
the Panel’s decision. The Company is considering all options
available to it, including a reverse stock split, and will provide
its shareholders with material updates when they are available.
About Warrantee Inc.
Founded in Japan in 2013, Warrantee is a
Japanese marketing and market research technology company that
helps corporate sponsors unlock value through targeted marketing
campaigns while providing its corporate sponsors' potential
customers who participate in its campaigns with extended warranty
coverage on durables or certain healthcare benefits sponsored by
its corporate sponsors. Warrantee focuses on developing a suite of
specialized marketing and market research services and these
services are designed to collect and leverage targeted and
specialty data of its corporate sponsors' potential customers to
provide proprietary market insights to its corporate sponsors and
promote the sales of their products. At the core of Warrantee's
current business of providing marketing campaign services is its
trinity model, which connects three stakeholders: corporate
sponsors, campaign participants, whom Warrantee also refers to as
users, and Warrantee, and is designed to benefit all three
stakeholders. For more information, please visit the Company's
website: https://warrantee.com/ir/.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this announcement are
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements
involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on
the Company’s current expectations and projections about future
events that the Company believes may affect its financial
condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial
needs. Investors can find many (but not all) of these statements by
the use of words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “believe,”
“expect,” “could,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “estimate,”
“continue,” “predict,” “project,” “potential,” “target,” “goal,” or
other similar expressions in this prospectus. The Company
undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any
forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events
or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be
required by law. Although the Company believes that the
expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are
reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn
out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual
results may differ materially from the anticipated results and
encourages investors to review other factors that may affect its
future results in the Company’s registration statement and other
filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
For investor and media inquiries, please
contact:
Warrantee Inc.
Investor Relations Department
Email: info@warrantee.co.jp
Ascent Investor Relations
LLC
Tina Xiao
Phone: +1-646-932-7242
Email: investors@ascent-ir.com
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